Q. So this is my first question on yahoo!,and I have some questions about my first bra.
Ok, so I am in gr. 8, and I'm going to get my first padded bra next week with my friend at Aerie, and i have a few questions
1. How do you discreetly wash a padded bra, and drying it without people seeing?
2. How do I confront my mom that I'm going to buy one?
3. What happens if my brother or dad start making fun of me?
P.S. I can't dry it in the bathroom because I share it with my brother D:
I'm getting a Lightly Lined Bra
Ok, so I am in gr. 8, and I'm going to get my first padded bra next week with my friend at Aerie, and i have a few questions
1. How do you discreetly wash a padded bra, and drying it without people seeing?
2. How do I confront my mom that I'm going to buy one?
3. What happens if my brother or dad start making fun of me?
P.S. I can't dry it in the bathroom because I share it with my brother D:
I'm getting a Lightly Lined Bra
Answer
Hey girl,
I would tell your mom first that you feel like you are ready to start wearing a bra. It really is not a big deal, she has been wearing one for years! As far as washing goes, you can start washing your own laundry and put it in with that or you can fill up your bathroom sink with warm water and add just a teenie bit of laundry soap or hand soad, scrub it good with your hands or a rag. Squeeze it out good and then take it back to your room and fold a towl in half, put the bra on the towel and then fold it long ways again over the bra and let it dry on your bed or on another surface. Your brother might tease you, boys are stupid, i don't think your dad would make fun of you. Just be descreet about it and keep it private if you don't want them to know about it.
ps you don't need a majorly padded bra, just something that is thick enough to cover and secure your girls ;0)
Hey girl,
I would tell your mom first that you feel like you are ready to start wearing a bra. It really is not a big deal, she has been wearing one for years! As far as washing goes, you can start washing your own laundry and put it in with that or you can fill up your bathroom sink with warm water and add just a teenie bit of laundry soap or hand soad, scrub it good with your hands or a rag. Squeeze it out good and then take it back to your room and fold a towl in half, put the bra on the towel and then fold it long ways again over the bra and let it dry on your bed or on another surface. Your brother might tease you, boys are stupid, i don't think your dad would make fun of you. Just be descreet about it and keep it private if you don't want them to know about it.
ps you don't need a majorly padded bra, just something that is thick enough to cover and secure your girls ;0)
Why did girls start wearing bras?
nokagirl
okay, im no idiot. I know that people wear them to make the girls stay up and so they dont show through a shirt. But how did this start? does anyone know the history? Like did women wear them 100 years ago?
And do any of you think there stupid? especially for girls like me who have really small boobs.
neelikes....- i dont show my nipples!
you know the padding in swimsuit tops?
i take that out and put it in my camisole,
you cant see thru at all.
Answer
Bra fashion history began as far back as Cretan times, but 1907, was the year when the word brassiere was first reported in an American copy of Vogue. The original French meaning was support, but the word was out of use and the French chose to call a bra soutien-gorge. Cretan women wore bras thousands of years ago. In England bust improvers were available in the Edwardian period. By 1905 BBs as they were known were usual wear.
Bra fashion history truly began with the first bra to be patented. The first bra was patented in 1914 by Mary Phelps-Jacobs an American. It is not thought to be the first bra ever, but it is the first patented record and that gives her the credit.
Mary Phelps-Jacobs patented her bra design under the patent name of Caresse Crosby. Some suggest it was her French maid who provided the idea or the stitching help. Two silk handkerchiefs were tied together, baby ribbon sewn on to make straps and a seam set in the centre front.
After 1918 fashion bras were simply lace fabric bands with straps. The boyish figures needed for styles by designers like Chanel didn't need upholstered corsets.
The best bra to get the right effect was called the Symington Side Lacer, a reinforced bust bodice. Side lacing meant that it flattened the bust when laced tightly. Soon the word brassière was abandoned for bra and ever since in fashion history we have referred to the bra.
Bra history took on a new dimension when in 1935, Warners introduced four cup sizes called A, B, C and D, but it was well into the 1950s before Britain followed this American standard. The British corset manufacturers were still using coy descriptions like junior and medium to describe breast fullness.
Bosoms were dethroned and separate breasts were really acknowledged.
Fashion history is always affected by material shortages during and immediately after wars. In the war era after 1940, bras were made from minimal fabric when they bore the Utility mark. Utility bras were serviceable bras using broche, a cotton backed satin or drill and often peach pink in colour. Supplies were very limited and were best ordered. Twilfit manufactured utility bras and Twilfit were a household name for roll-ons and bras in the 1950s.
Women also made their own bras from paper patterns or magazine guidelines for making bra and French knicker sets. The fabric they used was sometimes parachute silk, parachute nylon or old satin wedding dresses. Once the 1950s arrived changes in textile technology saw new developments in all underwear items, but particularly in the costume history of bras.
Fashion history has shown that by the 1950s glamour was what women wanted most. They had been deprived in the war and they had seen the Hollywood stars that had uplift that almost reached their necks. Brand names like Maidenform, Berlei, Triumph and the British Marks & Spencer bras under the St. Michael label all sold excellent bras that gave the correct pointed circular stitched conical shape of the era.
The conical bra was the bra that gave the support silhouette for girls who longed to emulate the curves of film star sweater girls like Lana Turner and Jane Russell. Bra history changed for the better as bras began to be revolutionized by the use of nylon, making them lighter, prettier and easier to wash.
In the 1990s when silicone breast implants and other implants caused scares, many women looked to bras to improve their breast size. The Wonderbra was a huge hit and bestseller all over again in the 1990s.
Bra fashion history began as far back as Cretan times, but 1907, was the year when the word brassiere was first reported in an American copy of Vogue. The original French meaning was support, but the word was out of use and the French chose to call a bra soutien-gorge. Cretan women wore bras thousands of years ago. In England bust improvers were available in the Edwardian period. By 1905 BBs as they were known were usual wear.
Bra fashion history truly began with the first bra to be patented. The first bra was patented in 1914 by Mary Phelps-Jacobs an American. It is not thought to be the first bra ever, but it is the first patented record and that gives her the credit.
Mary Phelps-Jacobs patented her bra design under the patent name of Caresse Crosby. Some suggest it was her French maid who provided the idea or the stitching help. Two silk handkerchiefs were tied together, baby ribbon sewn on to make straps and a seam set in the centre front.
After 1918 fashion bras were simply lace fabric bands with straps. The boyish figures needed for styles by designers like Chanel didn't need upholstered corsets.
The best bra to get the right effect was called the Symington Side Lacer, a reinforced bust bodice. Side lacing meant that it flattened the bust when laced tightly. Soon the word brassière was abandoned for bra and ever since in fashion history we have referred to the bra.
Bra history took on a new dimension when in 1935, Warners introduced four cup sizes called A, B, C and D, but it was well into the 1950s before Britain followed this American standard. The British corset manufacturers were still using coy descriptions like junior and medium to describe breast fullness.
Bosoms were dethroned and separate breasts were really acknowledged.
Fashion history is always affected by material shortages during and immediately after wars. In the war era after 1940, bras were made from minimal fabric when they bore the Utility mark. Utility bras were serviceable bras using broche, a cotton backed satin or drill and often peach pink in colour. Supplies were very limited and were best ordered. Twilfit manufactured utility bras and Twilfit were a household name for roll-ons and bras in the 1950s.
Women also made their own bras from paper patterns or magazine guidelines for making bra and French knicker sets. The fabric they used was sometimes parachute silk, parachute nylon or old satin wedding dresses. Once the 1950s arrived changes in textile technology saw new developments in all underwear items, but particularly in the costume history of bras.
Fashion history has shown that by the 1950s glamour was what women wanted most. They had been deprived in the war and they had seen the Hollywood stars that had uplift that almost reached their necks. Brand names like Maidenform, Berlei, Triumph and the British Marks & Spencer bras under the St. Michael label all sold excellent bras that gave the correct pointed circular stitched conical shape of the era.
The conical bra was the bra that gave the support silhouette for girls who longed to emulate the curves of film star sweater girls like Lana Turner and Jane Russell. Bra history changed for the better as bras began to be revolutionized by the use of nylon, making them lighter, prettier and easier to wash.
In the 1990s when silicone breast implants and other implants caused scares, many women looked to bras to improve their breast size. The Wonderbra was a huge hit and bestseller all over again in the 1990s.
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